More Italy. . . Because I’ll be there soon!

I have to say I’m getting a bit panicky about how many titles I’m behind here. I’ve read so many wonderful books this summer, but I seem to have written about so few of them.…

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A Quick Word….

I’ve been reading greedily and saving my blogging for over here, so I thought I’d pop in and share some recent Instagram posts about Kate Atkinson’s A God in Ruins until I’m ready for a…

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Icy Times in a Wonderful Parisian-Set Mystery. . .Vargas and Adamsberg

Last post, I wrote a bit about the role Obligation plays in my reading. Perhaps I made it sound as if Obligation was necessarily at odds with Pleasure, and of course, that is Wrong. Wrong.…

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Reading by Obligation, Self-Imposed. . .

Interestingly, but probably not surprisingly, my reading patterns mirror my personality as clearly as most of my other behaviour patterns. Perhaps even more so.  Duty struggles with pleasure, goals struggle against random temptations, and a…

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Montreal Mysteries on Canada Day. . .

Whoops! I see there’s some danger of slipping back into my old ways; it’s three weeks since I last posted. (echoes there, aren’t there, of my old Catholic formula for confession? Bless me, Father, it’s…

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